Improved mode of coupling gun-stocks with pistols



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No. 22,826. Patented Jan. 18, 1859.

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SAMUEL COLT, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED MODE OF COUPLING GUN-STOCKS Wl' l'H PISTOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 22,626, dated January 18, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that -I, SAMUEL COLT, of Hartford, county of Hartford, in the State of Conneticut, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Carbine Pistol Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in a novel method of coupling the removable stock pistols in forming the carbine-pistol attachment, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a carbine-pistol attachment embracing my improved device. Fig. 2 represents a vertical longitudinal section through the center of the same; and Fig. 3 represents a vertical cross section at m m, Fig; 1, similar letters denoting the same parts in the different views.

B represents the detachable stock, 0 C is the lock-frame, a the base-pin, b the guard, A the stock, and Z the back strap, of one of my repeatingpistols. B is a metallic neck-piece, which is fitted to the neck of the stock B and secured thereto by screws m and n. f is the clamping-bar, which has cut on its upper end, 0, a screw-thread, to accommodate a thumb-nut, e, and has its lower portion bent backward and downward, terminating in a round head-piece, f. 70 is a spring which operates upon the barf, (as will be presently explained,) and is fastened at its butt to the under side of the upper portion of the neck-piece B by a screw, 0. d d are the holder-pins.

The neck-piece B, (the exact form of which will bebest comprehended from the drawings,) it will be seen is so shaped as to fit over or embrace a portion of the stock or. handleA of the pistol, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) while its forward extremities, B B, (see Figs. 1 and 8,) run under shoulders formed by cutting away the lower portion on either side of the semispherical part 0 of the lock-frame and over the holder-pins d d, which project upon the sides of the said lock-frame. (See Figs. 1 and B.) By this peculiar formation of the neckpiece B it will be understood that the stock or handle of the pistol is retained firmly within its grasp, provided the rear lower portion of said stock be held against the lower part of said neck-piece. To accomplish this I use the before-mentioned clamping or securing bar f, which is so arranged within the said neck-piece as to be capable of a given degree of motion up and down in it, and a slight vibrating motion or swing backward and forward at its lower extremity (when not clamped up.) This barf is furnished with a head, f,

arounded fore corner of which fits into a correspondingly-shaped cavity at 13, in lower corner of the back strap, Z, when said bar is clamped up by turning its thumb-nut 6.

When it is desired to form thecarbine attachment, (to couple the stock B to the pistol',) the butt of the stock 13 is held in an elevated position relative to the pistol, and its extremities or coupling ends B ]3 run in between the shoulders formed on the portion 0 of the lock-frame, (as before described,) and the pins directly explained.) In detaching the stock B from the pistol, the thumb-nut e is first turned (in a direction opposite to that adopted in attaching the stock) sufficiently to allow the head f to be thrown out of the cavity at i by means of the spring 7c, when the forefinger may be applied to said head f and it pressed backward. The butt of the stock B should then be slightly elevated, when said stock may be readily drawn away from the pistol.

It will ,be seen that by the devices described, operating as set forth, a simple and durable method of coupling the removable stock to the pistol is attained.-

Having described the construction and operation of my improvement, what I claim set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of December, 1858.

SAM. COLT. [L. s.]

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J. DEANE ALDEN, VVILLIAM JARVIS. 

